Project description:In this study, we used RNA-sequencing to compare the transcriptional programmes in cESC, elicited either by stimulation with recombinant interferon-α or by infection with the attenuated Fowlpox virus vaccine strain (FP9), the canarypox virus vaccine strain (CNPV), the Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus or PBG98, a mild vaccine strain of infectious bursal disease virus.
Project description:Fowlpox virus (here as FP9, a plaque-purified, high passage-attenuated derivative) effectively suppresses induction of the âinnateâ immune responses, notably the Type I interferon system, of the permissive host (chicken). Despite the extensive usage of fowlpox virus as a recombinant vaccine vector in chickens, its immunomodulatory mechanisms remain largely unknown. In this study, a transcriptomic analysis using the Affymetrix GeneChip chicken genome array was performed at the host gene transcription level at 4, 8, 16 and 24 hours post-infection of mock treated and FP9-infected (MOI=5, 2h) chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF). The experiment was performed in triplicate with three different batches of CEFs. Because fowlpox virus is capable of expressing antigens in mammalian cells, these studies in chicken cells form a baseline for subsequent study of immunomodulation of mammalian innate immune responses.
Project description:This project describes the protein composition of the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (CroV, strain BV-PW1: TaxID 693272) particle, a giant marine DNA virus that infects the heterotrophic nanoflagellate microeukaryote C. roenbergensis. CroV is a member of the Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Virus clade and related to Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus. CroV possesses a DNA genome of ~730 kilobase pairs that encodes 544 predicted proteins. We analyzed the protein composition of purified CroV particles by liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and identified 141 virion-associated CroV proteins. Predicted functions could be assigned to 37% of these proteins, which include structural proteins as well as enzymes for transcription, DNA repair, redox reactions and protein modification. Homologs of 36 CroV virion proteins have previously been found in the virion of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus. This study shows that giant DNA virus particles contain more than one hundred viral proteins that include specific enzymatic functions.
Project description:WT and GSDMD KO mice were infected with 50 TCID50 influenza virus strain PR8. 7 days post infection, RNA was extracted from lung tissue using TRIzol. RNA library preparation and sequencing was performed by Genewiz.
Project description:To obtain the site-by-site methylation landscape of the infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) genome, whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) was performed on an ISKNV strain from 3 duplicate samples.
